David Lammy: Earlier today my right hon. and noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, made a statement in the other place reporting that she had laid before Parliament, in accordance with section 103D of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 as inserted by section 26 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004, the Community Legal Service (Asylum and Immigration) Regulations 2005. These regulations prescribe the procedure to be followed by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and the High Court, when retrospectively awarding legal aid for challenges to decisions of the Tribunal.
	These regulations will come into force on 4 April. The new legal aid arrangements are being introduced to support the new Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and the new system of access to the higher courts, by discouraging weak applications. This will contribute to increasing speed and efficiency within the appeals process and ensuring that public money is focused on applicants with genuine claims.
	Under the new arrangements legal aid will be awarded retrospectively at the end of the process, usually by the Tribunal judge following reconsideration and in a limited number of cases, following the determination of the review application.

Harriet Harman: Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Attorney-General's DEL will be increased by £24,517,000 from £621,109,000 to £645,626,000 and the Administration Costs Limits will be increased by £32,598,000 from £468,709,000 to £501,307,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
	
		£'000s
		
			   New DEL 
			  Change Voted Non-voted Total 
		
		
			 Resource 28,570 632,787 - 632,787 
			 Capital -572 22,443 - 22,443 
			 Depreciation* -3,481 -9,604 - -9,604 
			 Total 24,517 645,626 - 645,626 
		
	
	* Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.
	The Crown Prosecution Service's (CPS) element of the Attorney-General's DEL will be increased by £24,152,000 from £561,429,000 to £585,581,000 and the administration costs limit will be increased by £27,352,000 from £434,977,000 to £462,329,000.
	The change in the CPS's DEL arises from:
	Administration costs changes in respect of a transfer of £554,000 from the Department for Constitutional Affairs to fund the Effective Trial Management Programme.
	Administration costs changes in respect of a transfer of £4,000,000 from the non-voted Departmental Unallocated Provision (DUP) and the take up of £22,000,000 end year flexibility administration costs to fund the increased requirements for charging.
	Administration costs changes in respect of a transfer of £448,000 from the Crown Prosecution Service to the Home Office to support the "No Witness No Justice" partnership programme to improve services to prosecution witnesses in criminal cases.
	Administration costs changes in respect of a transfer of £354,000 from the Crown Prosecution Service to the Treasury Solicitor's Department to support the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers (LSLO).
	Programme expenditure changes in respect of a transfer of £1,772,000 other current expenditure from, the Home Office to provide additional resources from Criminal Justice Information Technology (CJIT) to fund Exchange Integration Services Stream Release 1 (ExISS r1), an initiative to improve the integration of Criminal Justice IT Systems.
	Programme expenditure changes in respect of a transfer of £1,200,000 other current expenditure from the Home Office to provide additional resources from Criminal Justice Information Technology (CJIT) to begin development of the "No Witness No Justice" (NWNJ) IT Support Tool.
	Programme expenditure changes in respect of a transfer of £3,000,000 transfer from non-voted Departmental Unallocated Provision (DUP) required for increased costs related to the prosecution of criminal cases.
	The change in the capital element of the CPS's DEL arises from £572,000 capital transferred from the Crown Prosecution Service to the Home Office to support the "No Witness No Justice" partnership programme to improve services to prosecution witnesses in criminal cases.
	Other changes which have no net effect on the CPS's DEL are:
	Programme costs changes in respect of the transfer of £1,600,000 from the Crown Prosecution Service other current expenditure to administration costs to support the increased deployment of internal resources in the Crown Court.
	£2,600,000 Administration costs End Year Flexibility transferred to the Treasury Solicitors' Department for the PRACAMS project.
	The Serious Fraud Office's (SFO) element of the Attorney-General's DEL will be increased by £365,000 from £40,640,000 to £41,005,000 and the administration costs limit will be increased by £865,000 from £23,740,000 to £24,605,000.
	The change in the resource element of the SFO's DEL arises from:
	Administration costs changes in respect of the draw down of £892,000 End Year Flexibility for additional costs related to accommodation, projects and efficiency review responses.
	Administration costs changes in respect of the transfer of £27,000 to the Treasury Solicitors' Department to support the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers (LSLO).
	Programme costs changes in respect of the transfer of £500,000 other current expenditure to the Treasury Solicitors' Department for increased costs related to the PRACAMS project.
	The Treasury Solicitor's Department (TSD) element of the Attorney-General's DEL will not change from £19,040,000, however the Administration Costs Limit will be increased by £4,381,000 from £9,992,000 to £14,373,000.
	The change in the resource element of TSD's DEL of arises from:
	Take up of End Year Flexibility of £2,600,000 to be drawn from the Crown Prosecution Service's element of the Law Officers' End Year Flexibility for increased costs related to the PRACAMS project.
	Administration costs changes in respect of a transfer of £500,000 from the Serious Fraud Office to the Treasury Solicitors Department for increased costs related to the PRACAMS project.
	Administration costs changes in respect of a transfer of £354,000 from the Crown Prosecution Service, and a transfer of £27,000 from the Serious Fraud Office to the Treasury Solicitors Department to support the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers (LSLO).
	Other changes which have no net effect on TSD's DEL are:
	Programme costs changes in respect of the transfer of £900,000 from Treasury Solicitors' Department other current expenditure to Administration costs for increased costs related to the PRACAMS project.
	Administration costs changes in respect of the transfer of £16,000 from the Customs & Excise Prosecution Office to the Treasury Solicitors' Department to support the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers (LSLO).
	Administration costs changes in respect of the transfer of £55,000 from the Treasury Solicitors' Department Agency to support the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers (LSLO).
	Administration costs changes in respect of a £7,000,000 increase in Treasury Solicitors' Department Administration costs offset by a corresponding increase in Administration income to meet an additional demand for legal services provided to other Government Departments.
	Administration costs changes in respect of a £75,000 increase in Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate Administration costs offset by a corresponding increase in Administration income, to fund costs arising from work done for HMC&E.